The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Building for keeps: Adam Richards’ Walmer Castle visitor centre
Adam Richards Architects has created a robust but contextual learning centre on the grounds of Walmer Castle on the Kent coast. Photography by Brotherton-Lock
Cultural
From museums and galleries to opera houses and theatres
Dance moves: Glenn Howells’ new home for English National Ballet
The headquarters building provides a cultural anchor for the London City Island docklands redevelopment, says Rob Wilson. Photography Hufton + Crow
Music box-in-a-box: Manchester’s Hallé orchestra’s rehearsal facility
Manchester-based stephenson STUDIO has combined well-judged materials, technical expertise and bespoke detailing to create a solid and confident facility for the city’s famous orchestra, writes Fran Williams. Photography by Daniel Hopkinson
Hawkins\Brown turns listed library into community centre
A 1903 Grade II-listed library on Plumstead High Street in south-east London has been refurbished and extended to create The Plumstead Centre, a new community building
Atkins reworks listed Plymouth museum as cultural centre
‘The Box’ is a £40 million project creating a new consolidated archive for the city and museum
Bell Phillips’ Southwark Park lakeside pavilion opens
The south London pavilion, part of a larger masterplan by Kinnear Landscape Architects, includes a café designed by Mizzi, park offices and public amenities
Hopkins Architects completes interpretation centre in Sharjah with ‘urchin’-inspired shape
The Buhais Geology Park Interpretive Centre is sited on a former sea-bed in a region of geological and prehistoric significance in the centre of the UAE
Page\Park reveals £13.4 million Leeds Playhouse revamp
An extension provides a coloured ceramic ‘face’, while internally theatre spaces have been reworked
Emerging designer WallaceLiu transforms former steel factory into museum in China
The 7,500m² museum is part of a larger regeneration of an old factory site in Chongqing in south-west China
Matheson Whiteley redevelops artists’ studios in Stuttgart
The 180m² ground floor of Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, a former factory converted to artists’ workshops and exhibition spaces, has been reconfigured and includes custom furniture designed by Simon Jones Studio